You can set privacy options to prevent the general public from seeing your full name, who follows you, who you follow, or any of your shared items.
You can even set privacy levels on individual items, specific feeds, and you use your Google contacts groups to set those privacy levels.
In other words, it's very easy to allow only specific people to see your shared items, and no one has to know who's following you or who you're following, except the people you're actually following - they'll know you're following them, but not who else you're following.
i'm going to point out that all of these features have been added since the initial release and that simply clicking on the Buzz icon would activate your wide open Buzz profile during that first roll-out.
i do give Google kudos for reacting quickly to their user's security concerns.
i'm going to point out that all of these features have been added since the initial release and that simply clicking on the Buzz icon would activate your wide open Buzz profile during that first roll-out.
ah, I never saw that part. I wasn't part of the initial roll-out, so I knew about Buzz before it was actually activated in my account (or before I saw it in my account, at least), and I had access to all the privacy features right away.
I'm angry because I was under the assumption that my personal information was my personal information and Google just blew that assumption out of the water. I don't have Google profile because I don't want to be found and Buzz just happily plastered all my personal contacts all over the internet. All I want is a service that will send my emails out and get me emails that other people have sent to me and I didn't even have the option to opt out of, much less get rid of, this "service".
I had a total stranger follow me. I had an aquaintance that I don't particularly like follow me over and over again after I blocked her, twice. I was magically signed up to folllow people after I'd cleaned my list out and while my computer had been off for 12 hours.
How are these things not an invasion of my privacy?
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You can even set privacy levels on individual items, specific feeds, and you use your Google contacts groups to set those privacy levels.
In other words, it's very easy to allow only specific people to see your shared items, and no one has to know who's following you or who you're following, except the people you're actually following - they'll know you're following them, but not who else you're following.
i'm going to point out that all of these features have been added since the initial release and that simply clicking on the Buzz icon would activate your wide open Buzz profile during that first roll-out.
i do give Google kudos for reacting quickly to their user's security concerns.
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ah, I never saw that part. I wasn't part of the initial roll-out, so I knew about Buzz before it was actually activated in my account (or before I saw it in my account, at least), and I had access to all the privacy features right away.
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I had a total stranger follow me. I had an aquaintance that I don't particularly like follow me over and over again after I blocked her, twice. I was magically signed up to folllow people after I'd cleaned my list out and while my computer had been off for 12 hours.
How are these things not an invasion of my privacy?
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